tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8538774386836120846.post1664556251904873931..comments2023-08-18T02:31:53.162-07:00Comments on The Breckland Birder: Little Cressingham (early afternoon)The Breckland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00203400040384205222noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8538774386836120846.post-80346388304861232712014-02-05T06:05:11.802-08:002014-02-05T06:05:11.802-08:00Much the same here...
I need to be doing tree work...Much the same here...<br />I need to be doing tree work...<br />but...<br />it is TOO mild...<br />they are all waking up!!<br /><br />We aren't getting half the normal run of birds... <br />Bramblings, Siskins, etc., on the immediate patch...<br />there is too much for them out in the wilds!<br /><br />Up to four young Reed Buntings and one of our Cirl Buntings show regularly across the meadow in the blackthorn patch that I've encouraged. <br />Otherwise the usual suspects... G&B Tits, Goldfinks, Greenfinks and loadsa Chaffinks!!<br /><br />The nicest thing is the small "family" of Chiffchaffs who seem to think our end wall is the beesknees of restaurants...<br />they understand glass... <br />they pick flies off their side... <br />and stand on the windowsill and look in...<br />even if either of us are standing just the other side...<br />Pauline reckons one was giving her the once over the other morning...<br />kept looking up and down at her.<br /><br />And we saw one of our Water Voles yesterday... just working along the edge of the millstream outside the lounge window.<br /><br />Bid sad today tho'...<br />our farmer neighbour, well his son who runs the business now... <br />is trashing a nice bit of shrub corridor to enlarge his field!!<br />Fortunately this is, at present, unlikely to happen at the other end of our meadow...<br /><br />As for the WET... <br />I just published last months weather data on Aigronne Valley Wildlife...<br />along with 2012/13s January figures....<br />and compared them with the same years at the start of the 20th Century.<br />Very similar with all the storms,etc...<br /><br />Currently we are experiencing the same winds as are just hitting East Angular...<br />all I can say is... "Keep Ducking"... there are branches going everywhere.<br />Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439261142732764451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8538774386836120846.post-18111418962988058012014-02-04T19:10:35.330-08:002014-02-04T19:10:35.330-08:00Hi Tim
Good to get your message again.
This is cer...Hi Tim<br />Good to get your message again.<br />This is certainly a gorgeous variation from 'normal' birds.<br />A friend of mine had Rough-legged Buzzard on the patch yesterday.<br />Are you enjoying mild weather....unseasonally mild here at the current time...no sign of any winter so far this year.<br /><br />PaulThe Breckland Birderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203400040384205222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8538774386836120846.post-24561563299815660312014-02-04T11:19:04.129-08:002014-02-04T11:19:04.129-08:00Paul...
we seem to have the twin of this Buze Vari...Paul...<br />we seem to have the twin of this <i>Buze Variable</i> [Common Buzzard to you and me]...<br />we call ours "Osprey"!<br />Mainly because if it's sitting on a post like this...<br />one tends to do a double-take!!<br />Even when you know it's a Buzzard.<br /><br />We counted four pairs today in the three miles from the village back to ours.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439261142732764451noreply@blogger.com